Film/TV

Hope Heals

Columbia Pictures

A True Story of Overwhelming Loss & an Overcoming Love

With her six-month-old sleeping in the next room, Katherine Wolf screamed for her husband, Jay, and crumpled to the ground. Her modeling career was just taking off in Malibu, California, and Jay was ready to take his final law school exams in a few hours.

But those plans changed in an instant.

On April 21, 2008, Katherine suffered massive brain stem stroke. She was rushed into micro-brain surgery, where the neurosurgeon told Jay, “I need you to know there’s a good chance she will not survive.”

As the sun rose the next morning, Katherine had survived the removal of part of her brain.